Arizona silver belt., 1887-12-31
DURING THE QUEENS REIGN.

England Has Had Fifteen Foreign Wars
 Under Victoria's Rule.
 Now, how many wars have we had turing the queens reignf We have had a war in New Zealand, and one of the officers engaged in that war was obliged. to admit that the. New Zealanders were entirely right and we entirely wrong, We have had three wars with China. We had Zulu war not long ago, made abso- lutely by man without any orders from this country, a man who professed to be reaHy influenced by the Christian faith and religion. That cost us a great many English lives, and we destroyed the Zulu nation, at the same time bringing con- fusion into South Africa. We have had a Scind war, in which one of the Nap piers was concerned, war for which he had not the slightest justification or in struction from this country. Then there was the great Gikh war; by which the Puniaub was annexed to the English de- minion in India There were also two Afghan wars, for which there was not a particle of justification, in one of which whole English army was destroyed. Then We have had three Burmese wars, the second of which, recollect, was got up on pretences absolutely fraudulent and Ecandalous. Then we come to the Crimean war, the really big war of our time, though it did not last very long. But as to its severity, and the mortality caused by it, no man is able to make an accurate computation.
 A book written by a French general who recently visited the Crimea, in con hection with the cemeteries there, esti- mated that the bodies of 250, 1000 men are there. I believe the Russians alone buried moro than 100, 900 on the north side of Sevastopol. Kinglake in his history esti- Bhates that 1, 1000, ,000 men lost their lives In that struggle, a number about equal bo every adult man in the vast city of London.
 And what were all these lives sacri~ feed for? Absolutely nothing whatever, because the only apparent result was slight limitation put upon the Russian government with regard to its future fleet in the Black sea, and that was sur rendered the moment the Franco-Ger- man war broke out. It was not war, be- cause war was never declared, but we made war, notwithstanding, on a cOun- try with which we were. notofieusly and professedly at peace. The bombardment of Alexandria is a sort of peace which the public of this country have not been en- tthI1sii5S Ss.-y-516OUt. Then followed the war in the Soudan, during which, at the lowest calculation, from 40, 900 to 50, ,0O0 lives were lost.
 I once proposed that the foreign office should be burned down, and it would be a very good thing if 8i it's treaties were burned with it. Conceive the cost of the wars that have occurred during the reign of the queen. Go back further to the beginning of what we call our parlia- mentary and constitutional system in the reign of William III and you will find that without one single exception they were absolutely unnecessary, and that the only result they have produced is an enormous national debt, which from that time to this has been extracted from the labor and the sweat of millions of men in this country, but which should have remained with them for the sustenance and comfort of themselves and their fam dies.
 Fifteen wars in fifty years reign of professedly 'peace loving" and tender hearted queen are hardly among the blessings for which jUI1ilee thanks will be returRed.-Boston Globe.